1923 clipping from,
A Documentary Scrapbook of Football in Frankford,
original source publication not identified.

FRANKFORD-BY-L  NOW READY FOR FOOTBALL

Bustling Northeast Burg Will Dedicate New
$100,000 Field and See Yellowjackets Start
Advertising Fair Daughter of Philadelphia

Madame Philadelphia 's spry and spruce daughter, Frankford by-the Elevated, has dipped into her capacious pockets to disgorge some $100,000 simply to advertise the bustling burg that lies to the north of City Hall.

This 100 grand, as we say in the classic Greek, is not to be expended in any "drives" whose tendency is largely to drive everybody nuts, nor is it to be fritted to the four winds of publicity with a lot of slogans of little value.

Nay, the 100,000 from gentlemen that Frankford will pass around is to take the form of a football eleven and athletic field that is the best standing and running ad, so to speak, that the twenty-third ward has ever had.

Well, do we remember the chattering to a native of sunny Florida last spring, as he talked and talked upon this topic and that subject. Finally his mind leaped to Philadelphia, the Queen City of Pennsylvania, and the Floridian exclaimed:

"Great town Philadelphia. I was there for three weeks last fall. That's a whale of a football team you fellows have in a place they call Frankfurt, or something like that."

Gently but firmly did we chide him for abusing the pronunciation of one word in this fair city of ours where All-American gridiron talent abounds like mushrooms in a swamp, or weeds to the front garden. As gently but even more firmly did we expatiate on the glory that is Frankford's, and run over the list of All-American talent in the team, with a little thumbnail sketch of each and every member thrown in as good measure.

Nary a word escapes this Southerner regarding Independence Hall and other temples of liberty, the shrines to which America journeys with the passing years. All he knew was the Frankford eleven. All he carried back to him to the Land of the Everglades and Northern Tourists was the reputation of warriors in moleskins who are the brightest jewels in Dame Frankford's crown.

All-Lancaster has been chosen as the eleven to be butchered to make a football holiday in the Northeast. The new football emporium will be formally dedicated, with appropriate ceremonies and the attendance of beauty, chivalry, the forward pass and the lively punt.

The new field is above Frankford on the road to Holmesburg, Tacony, Andalusia, Cornwell's, Eddington and other towns and villages served by the trolley lines that infest, pardon, inhabit those communities. It is the old home of the Frankford Driving Club, which at one time paid its devotions to King Horse and still yields obeisance to the ancient and passing animal.

Regarding the complexion of the 1923 edition of the Yellowjackets -- a yellowjacket is something that stings and for further information that this name is well-taken see divers and sundry opponents of last season -- it is on a par with its predecessors.

Such material as Johnny Scott, Benny Boynton, Joe Lebecks, Joe Lightner and others abound in the backfield, while the line has Lud Wray, Joe Alexander, Joe Spagna, Bull Lowe, Whitey Thomas, and others of like ilk. Suffice to say that the Yellowjackets are SOME team. To be mentioned as of All-American calibre in that galaxy is as fetching and striking a distinction as to be singled out as a Democrat in Mississippi.

Frankford , now that the elevated is running right along and making the burg a happy and contented, as well as bustling community, is ready to make Saturday a red letter day.